Posted: May 1st, 2018
Hewlett-Packard Development Company v. Benson Image, Top Printing and Aigostar, District Court the Hague, 25 April 2018, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2018:4810 HP is the holder of the European patent EP 1 330 360 titled “Inkjet printhead”. The patent was granted on 11 March 2009 relying on the priority date of US 702267 (30 October 2000). Claim 1 of […]
READ MOREPosted: December 22nd, 2017
Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly Danmark A/S (“Lilly”) v. Fresenius Kabi AB v/Fresenius Kabi and Fresenius Kabi Oncology Plc. (“Fresenius Kabi”), the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court, Case number A-19-17, 8 December 2017 The case concerns the infringement of Lilly’s patent DK/EP 1 313 508 (“DK/EP ‘508”) which relates to the use […]
READ MOREPosted: May 24th, 2017
Curt G Joa, Inc v Fameccanica Data SpA, UK, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Hacon HHJ, 24 May 2017 This case concerned a patent for “disposable absorbent garments”, including nappies/diapers and adult incontinence garments. By the time the case came to trial, the patentee had made both unconditional and conditional applications to amend the claims of […]
READ MOREPosted: January 5th, 2017
HTW Infiltratietechniek B.V. v. Permavoid Limited, Court of Appeal of the Hague, the Netherlands, 27 December 2016, Case number C/09/456139 / HA ZA 13-1362 Permavoid is the holder of European patent EP 1 311 727 B1 for ‘a pavement with structural module’. All claims of EP ‘727 are directed to a ‘vehicular trafficked pavement structure’. […]
READ MOREPosted: December 21st, 2016
Merck Sharp and Dohme Limited v Shionogi & Co. Limited, High Court of England and Wales (Arnold J), 25 November 2015, Neutral Citation Number [2016] EWHC 2989 (Pat) The claimant, Merck, sought revocation of Shionogi’s EP(UK) 1 422 218. The defendant, Shionogi, counterclaimed for infringement by Merck’s integrase inhibitor raltegravir, marketed as Isentress. Shionogi made […]
READ MOREPosted: October 24th, 2016
Sony Communications International AB and others v SSH Communications Security Corporation and others, UK Patents Court, Roger Wyand QC, 10 October 2016, Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWHC 2359 (Ch) In this action Sony sought to revoke SSH’s patent, EP (UK) 2 254 311. This patent related to an aspect of accessing wide area networks (WANs) […]
READ MOREPosted: October 17th, 2016
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v (1) Generics (UK) Limited (trading as Mylan), (2) Actavis Group PTC EHF, (3) Actavis UK Limited and (4) Caduceus Pharma Limited, England and Wales Court of Appeal (Floyd, Pattern and Kitchin LJJ), London UK, 13 October 2016, Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWCA Civ 1006 The Court of Appeal dismissed Warner-Lambert’s appeal […]
READ MOREPosted: February 15th, 2016
On 21st December 2015, The Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of AstraZeneca AB & others v Laboratorios Alter and & others (EDJ 2015/244058). AstraZeneca had filed an action against several generic companies for infringement of an SPC for the product quetaipina: The SPC’s basic patent was EP 228. EP 228 was […]
READ MOREPosted: December 9th, 2015
Generics (UK) Limited trading as Mylan v Warner-Lambert Company LLC, High Court of England and Wales (Arnold J), London, UK, 25 November 2015, Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWHC 3370 (Pat) Arnold J has struck out Warner-Lambert’s conditional application to amend a patent held invalid at first instance, and which was subject to ongoing appeal proceedings. […]
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